NY charter school success imperiled

9:05 AM,
Jan. 5, 2014

Written by

Nina Rees

New York's public charter schools are upending old assumptions about urban education. And they can help even more students if New York's incoming mayor lets them.

Earlier this year, Stanford's Center for Research on Educational Outcomes, or CREDO, revealed that in just one school year, the typical New York City charter school student gained about five additional months of learning in math and one additional month of learning in reading compared with students in traditional public schools.

These gains, repeated year after year, are helping to erase achievement gaps between urban and ...